Cheryl Ann Lambert earned her doctorate from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) in the College of Communication and Information. While at UTK, her primary area of study was Public Relations and her secondary area was Health Communication.

Lambert has published work about priority information needs in the scholarly journal, Communication and Social Change (2008). She was a panel presenter discussing online health information-seeking at the annual convention of the Broadcast Education Association (2008); she co-authored a paper about how news publications frame “obesity” at the annual conference of the International Communication Association (2007), and she co-authored and presented a paper at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication about how national newspapers frame “public relations” (2006).